Word: hardheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Green's thinking reflected that of the federation. The A.F.L. had survived and grown in an unsympathetic world by a hardheaded conservatism. Under Samuel Gompers it shunned politics. It had only one real objective-wages, and more wages. It preferred to take what it could get without many risks...
The deal to develop Liberia by stimulating trade was a mixture of free-trading idealism and hardheaded business. With an eye on all the backward countries of the world, Stettinius said: "With our technique and know-how, it just isn't necessary for them to live poorly. I would...
Field didn't need the afternoon Times so much as he needed a place to print his morning Sun. Since it began, six years ago, the Sun has been a paying guest of the Chicago Daily News. At first, everything was fine. Marshall Field's Sun was out...
Hardheaded patience and firmness the West will need in dealing with Russia; but understanding and compassion it will need too. To consider Russia "with the heart" means to sense two stories-the story of her great warm people, and the story of the cold bureaucracy of lies and murder which...
State's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs had asked for $31 million. It got nothing. Unless the Senate showed mercy and intervened, the much criticized Voice of America radio programs and other OIC projects were due to die. OIC had been given a thorough examination by Nebraska...